José Luis Gamboa, Margarito Esquivel, Lourdes Maldonado, Roberto Toledo, Ernesto Islas and, Thursday February 10, Heber Lopez. They were journalists or photographers, and they paid for it with their lives. In Mexico, reporters are regularly targeted by cartels or corrupt local governments linked to organized crime. But the wave of violence has taken on an … Read more
Monday, January 17, around 12:45 p.m., photojournalist Margarito Martinez Esquivel leaves his home in Tijuana, a border town between Mexico and the United States. He is walking quietly towards his car when he falls under several gunshots fired at the level of the head. → REREAD. Record of 488 journalists detained worldwide in 2021, deplores … Read more
Pegasus software was the tool used to spy on activists and journalists for more than a year. The CitizenLab and AccessNow platforms have revealed the results of an investigation that confirms that at least 35 journalists and members of El Salvador’s civil society have been the object of espionage via Israeli-made Pegasus software. Journalists from … Read more
Forty-five journalists and media professionals were assassinated in 2021, a third less than the previous year (65), but the toll is particularly heavy in Asia, especially in Afghanistan, according to a report by the International Federation of Journalists. (IFJ), published on December 31, 2021. “This figure of 45 represents one of the lowest records since … Read more